• @x4740N@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Now I’m wondering if someone in bad faith could link an tracking image and just rip ip addressees in the background

    I guess it depends on if lemmy clients query the link to fetch fetch images or just grab a cached copy of the image from the lemmy instance

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      410 months ago

      Images in comments don’t get cached, so absolutely yes. But I mean, public IP + User Agent is like minimum of information anyway. Any website you visit gets it.